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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gretchen Anonymous Remailer)
Wed Feb 10 06:29:55 1999
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Date: 10 Feb 1999 11:11:26 -0000
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FREEDOM SOFTWARE TARGETS PERSONAL SECURITY
Zero Knowledge Systems has unveiled its Freedom software product, designed
to provide a measure of personal privacy on the Internet by encrypting
messages and provide up to five pseudonyms that can be used in electronic
commerce, chat rooms or sensitive-topic discussion groups. The software
also includes a spam filter and cookie protector. Analysts say the
software
could make electronic shopping a more attractive proposition, because
buyers
wouldn't have to divulge their personal information (other than their
credit
card numbers). "When users don't see themselves as having privacy, they'll
just lie and give totally false (demographic and personal) data, so a lot
of
the data that marketers get today is useless," says Zero Knowledge chief
scientist Ian Goldberg. Freedom software is expected to hit the shelves
next month. (Los Angeles Times 8 Feb 99)
"we have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and
whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have
more security" -- U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, 3 Feb 1999
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Ben Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
